By Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby was strengthening rapidly Sunday and was expected to become a hurricane as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, bringing with it the threat of devastating floods to the southeast Atlantic coast later in the ...
By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press WAYANAD, India — When Deva Das was jolted awake by the roar of gushing water and boulders banging at the door, he grabbed his parents and his kids and began running for higher ground. The family waded through slush and muck, climbed a hill, and stayed there in the pouring rain for nearly four hours. When day broke Tuesday, rescuers found the family and brought them down. When the 40-year-old agricultural laborer got back to the site of his village in southern India’s Kerala state, there was nearly nothing left. Houses were gone, buried under ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 76. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Tonight, a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2 a.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Calm wind ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Aug. 3, the 216th day of 2024. There are 150 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 3, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 23 people; after surrendering, the gunman told ...
By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2024. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public ...
By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore saw record-high rainfall early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting daily life, officials said, as the death toll from rain-related ...
